Newsgroups: sci.electronics
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Optical power distribution
Message-ID: <1988Jul29.195034.27685@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 88 19:50:34 GMT

In article <17588@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes:
>      Some recent work at Stanford on solar cells has produced experimental 
>units with around 30% efficiency...  devices like this open up the
>possibility of performing power distribution within electronic systems
>via optical means...

As I recall, several years ago Bell Labs demonstrated a fiber-optic phone
that got all its power by photovoltaic conversion of light from its fiber.
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